You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and...
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Oscar Wilde
But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of...
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Alan W. Watts
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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Jasper Fforde
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
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Albert Einstein
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
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George R.r. Martin
More Quotes By Christopher Morley
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Suppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know what you thought when you looked in the subway slot-machine? How brutally you spoke when you were angry? How Nature rode you with a busy spur? How you...
There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in...
